Quotes About Moment

My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness.

again. Before closing the door I waited

Suuret päätökset tehdään kauppakeskuksen tuulikaapissa perjantaina puoli viisi ja tuntemattomien kuullen.

It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it.

play, so far from being "by play," if I may so speak, is a matter of serious moment to the creature. Play is a veritable instinct.

Der Augenblick muß es ergeben." "Wenn aber kein solcher Augenblick kommt?" "So führe ich ihn herbei.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

wouldn't stay long. She told

Moments left, Teddy thought. A handful of heartbeats. That was what life was. A heartbeat followed by a heartbeat. A breath followed by a breath. One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment.

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

I think you should celebrate whenever you can. Take that momentary feeling of being lucky, that feeling of being on the right track, and enjoy it. It won't last.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

They were in the attic, in the dark. Rain pounded down against the roof, encapsulating them in a wall of sound. They had their own world. And for once, he would not allow the consequences to ruin the moment.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.

without disturbing the radiance which played and darted about the simple and lovely miracle of being two persons named Adam and Miranda, twenty four years old each, alive and on earth at the same moment: 'Are you in the mood for dancing?' and 'I'm always in the mood for dancing, Adam!' but there were things in the way, the day that ended with dancing was a long way to go.

Why do they not teach you that time is a fingersnap and an eyeblink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? PAT CONROY, My Losing Season

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

The night felt both eternal and instantaneous.

But in the end, you must move forward into the future. While you may not 'create' a moment, the very fact that you pedal down the road, that action thrusts you into another unique event in your life. Relish it, live it and smile that life treats you well. You represent living poetry in motion." FHW

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

And this is the truth of any game - it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played.